While googling my own name today, I found Michelle Kempner clip art on the Open Clip Art Library. My upstairs neighbor, Steve Lambert, added images to the public domain from the Wish You Were Here! Postcards from our Awesome Future project. It reminded me how much sharing of ideas and techniques are a part of […]
The 24th Chaos Communication Congress is underway, and goodness – what an amazing first day! Here are some of my photos… Some of the sessions I really enjoyed so far… Steam-Powered Telegraphy A League of Telextraordinary Gentlemen present the marvel of Telex on the Net – driven by a steam engine Simulating the Universe on […]
It’s been a great year of weekend projects. There’s no new video today, but check out a few favorites from this past year! The most viewed video from our blip.tv views is how to make a catapult with Bill Gurstelle. We made this podcast at Maker Faire! The most viewed weekend project video on youtube […]
Austringer writes – I was looking for inspiration for a linkage to remotely open the dust collector port on the back of my table saw. What I found was like getting a drink from a fire hose. You have to poke around a bit since they amazing stuff isn’t right there on the surface but […]
“Headphones”, an art piece by Andre Avelas employs 1,000 individual headphone sets where 960 work as speakers and 40 as microphones in order to create a continuous feedback loop that can be controlled on a nearby mixer. The project included an amplification circuit that added more hum to the feedback chain. Pretty interesting use of […]
Mike writes – An inertia friction welder powered by a bicycle. Built in 2 months and at a cost of £302. Finished and run for the first time at around 6pm GMT, Saturday 15th December. Thanks go to Andy for the welding, Steevo for the machining, Martin for grafting, Greg for filming and squeaking, Graeme […]
Servos can work really well as drive motors for a small robot. Their motion is relatively precise and predictable, and they operate on the same voltage as most microcontroller electronics, allowing you to build a simple robot without any additional motor control circuitry. Standard servos, though, can only rotate through about 180-degrees. Although you can […]
